Environment - Adopt an area
Time needed
As long as you like.
Cost
Try to beg, borrow or ? your materials. It is hard to give a cost as so many different things could be included, such as camp costs and transport.
Numbers
Unit.
Description
Select an area that your Unit regularly uses, like a camp site or by your hall.
Mark it out with pegs and measure the area. Draw a plan of the area. For a bush site the recommended size is about
50m x 50m. Divide your area into four or eight sections, depending on the size.
Record all the vegetation in each section and mark the location of trees and shrubs on your plan. Have the trees and
shrubs identified.
Take photographs before any changes are made.
If the area needs it, plant some more trees and shrubs, but ensure that they are suitable. Avoid introducing new
varieties.
Telephone Trees for Life for information on plant species. You may have to grow from seed. If so, collect the seed
from parent plants already in the area, not from a great distance away or from a different environment like the
other side of a range. Plant the seeds in tubes at home or spread them on the ground in the selected area. (With the
second method you have little control over germination or the survival of the plant.) Plant the home grown
seedlings, place guards around them and remember to water them. Watch them grow. Update your original plan of the
area.
Location
District camp site, Venturers camp area.
Transport
This could be a problem since the Venturers will need to go out on a regular
basis to check and water the seedlings. You will have to use personal transport.
Resources
Good walking shoes and wet weather gear if required as tours are conducted in all types of weather, mainly at dusk.
Contacts
Warrawong Sanctuary, Williams Road, Mylor.
Permission
Parental Authority to Participate forms.
Training
None.
Problems
None.
Precautions
Keep the group together during the tour.
Comments
None.